From: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Can I find where cygwin is installed (for automation purposes)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 14:42:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20877a05-79f2-549e-8959-3bd6904e5bb3@towo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEhDDbBUcV3HmoCwraH7pY5c19Sj=mRZ6ofCOZL3T9qx_4qq6w@mail.gmail.com>
Am 15.04.2020 um 12:51 schrieb Csaba Raduly via Cygwin:
> Hi Paul,
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 12:30 PM Paul Moore via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to write an automation script that works on a number of
>> machines. I know that on all machines Cygwin will be installed, but I
>> cannot guarantee that (1) it will be in the same location on each PC,
>> or (2) that it will be in PATH.
>>
>> There's HKCU\Software\Cygwin\Installations, but that seems to use \??
>> prefixes on the PATH, which I'm not sure how to interpret
Running that script within cygwin? `mount | grep " / "`
>
> On my machine, I have a
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygwin\setup
>
> key, which contains a string value named "rootdir" with the date
> "C:\cygwin64".
>
> Csaba
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-15 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-15 10:29 Paul Moore
2020-04-15 10:51 ` Csaba Raduly
2020-04-15 12:42 ` Thomas Wolff [this message]
2020-04-15 13:30 ` Paul Moore
2020-04-15 10:53 ` Csaba Ráduly
2020-04-15 13:29 ` Paul Moore
2020-04-15 15:53 ` Marco Atzeri
2020-04-15 18:10 ` Paul Moore
2020-04-15 18:30 ` René Berber
2020-04-15 18:39 ` Paul Moore
2020-04-15 20:49 ` René Berber
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